For everyone saying emo sucks and hardcore owns.... Emo is a subgenre of hardcore (punk) music. Emo is actually short for emocore, which means emotionally charged hardcore punk. Nowadays though, bands that arent true emo are just reffered to as emo because they have lyrics about commiting suicide. Bands like "The used" , "My chemical romance", "Fall out boy". These bands are actually pop punk, or MTVmo, but stupid people like everyone else in this thread categorize them as emo, which gives real emo a bad name. Try listening to "circle takes the square" ...thats real screamo/emocore/emo violence.